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AngelMercury replied on October 15, 2009 23:42 to the question "Blackberry ETA?" in foursquare:
Yes, I'd like an update on this too! ^.^-
AngelMercury replied on October 15, 2009 20:40 to the problem "Where's my Mayorship?" in foursquare:
Oh, Mayorship goes by #of days checked in at a place? I thought it was #of checkins within the last 60 days or something like that.
Regardless, I don't generally hit Mitsuwa (or most places) more than once a day. All that driving around!
I'm pretty sure there's something weird though cause Joe and I were switching back and forth everytime we checked in until it stopped promoting me. He's gotten lax since he thinks his claim there is safe now ;)
Thanks for looking into it! -
AngelMercury reported a problem in foursquare on October 15, 2009 04:10:
Where's my Mayorship?Hey guys,
I submitted an email to the help address just over a week ago but haven't heard anything back. There seems to be a better response to problems here so I'll just re-post my query.
I was busy turf waring with Joe W over mayorship of Mitsuwa - Santa Monica (http://foursquare.com/venue/43876) When all of a sudden I stopped getting promoted. I am now at 20 checkins there. Joe as mayor currently has 17. This started about two weeks ago. I haven't had trouble getting Mayorship anywhere else.
I know you guys have a lot going on, but even a 'We'll look into it' would be nice.
Thanks -
AngelMercury shared an idea in foursquare on October 13, 2009 23:21:
Sub Venues: What to do with them?Ok, so this is kinda driving me nuts. I'm really hoping I can start a discussion here with everyone as it's really something users should decide as a community, specially now that SuperUser lvl2 is out.
I've noticed a lot of Venues Within Venues and I've been wondering what the best way of dealing with this should be. This seems like something that as a community we should try and come together on cause in thinking about it there is some good reasons on both sides.
What I mean by Sub Venues are things like: Airports. There is a Venue for the Airport, but then there's a venue for each of the terminals, and then sometimes there's a venue for a specific gate or restaurant in the airport. This also happens in malls and similar type places.
So how do we handle these? My suggestion to the Foursquare guys is to make a Sub-Venue flag in the database and determine how this effects checkins and points in regards to the Master Venue. For me, I find checking in at a mall or something, and then checking in at the restaurant I'm eating at, while a good way to rack up points, a bit redundant (and can be spammy to my feed too).
And how deep is too deep? I can see the reasoning behind the terminals (I suppose) and Restaurants (If the social networking part was pushed more and you could meet the people checked in there), but should there really be a venue for each Gate in an airport? That seems like over kill to me, and a way for people to try and cheat around having to visit a place enough to win Mayorship from someone else.
What's everyone else think? -
AngelMercury replied on October 13, 2009 22:56 to the praise "Super Level Two - that's an accomplishment!" in foursquare:
Heck yeah! We need a secret hand shake or something. -
AngelMercury replied on October 13, 2009 22:29 to the idea "Merge venues based on more than one persons decision" in foursquare:
Hmm... No wonder there weren't any merges stacked up. I've been sticking pretty much to just merging the venues I mark as dupes, and checking very carefully for ones I haven't marked myself. Sounds like someone was getting a little over zealous and hit the wrong Keep place.
A kind of wiki undo/version-ing would fix this. Along with a superuser edit history. On the merge page it should show places that are marked to be merged, and places that have recently Been merged. Or a Superuser should be able to go and see the merge history of a certain venue (so as to correct against any complaints and such). It would also be good if the merges were flagged with Who did them. That way if someone didn't understand how merging works they would be knocked down a level, could have things better explained to them, or would be a sort of 1.5lvl that needs their merges approved by other superusers. -
AngelMercury replied on October 13, 2009 22:06 to the problem "Multiple Starbucks Locations" in foursquare:
Instead of checking in at 'Starbucks' Do a search venue for 'Starbucks -' and pick the correct one. Only! If the address you're at isn't listed for any of the starbucks in the system should you add a new venue, otherwise it will have to be merged later.
There's some sort of bug in the venues that associate the first checkin at a place of a certain name as the 'main' one. For example, the first 'Starbucks' entered in the system was that one starbucks at whatever address it was originally for. The database associated 'Starbucks' with that venue ID, so even though now people have added 'Starbucks - Santa Monica' if you enter Just 'Starbucks' into your checkin you're going to get checked into that first one.
I work around this by Always searching my venues instead of just checking in somewhere and hoping the name is connected the the branch I meant. You should go back and fix the address to what it was before, for everyone else who's checked in there. Hopefully there will be a fix eventually that lets you re-associate your checkins with the correct branch of a venue. -
AngelMercury replied on October 13, 2009 21:40 to the question "Trying to correct multiples - can't see them on the website!" in foursquare:
Yeah, this is a goofy thing in their web search. Similarly I just add a hyphen to my searches. "Mitsuwa -"
I pretty much Always do this when searching so I can ferret out dupes and fix them at some point. -
AngelMercury replied on October 13, 2009 21:37 to the praise "changing habits, one user at a time" in foursquare:
I've been thinking about joining a Gym for a while. The extra Badge is a definite push in that direction ^.~ -
A comment on the question "Other users in a location not on my friends list" in foursquare:
Woot! I'm all over that! Thank you. – AngelMercury, on August 28, 2009 20:10 -
AngelMercury replied on August 28, 2009 00:13 to the question "Other users in a location not on my friends list" in foursquare:
Yay! Awesome! I can't wait for the next verison. (Also can't wait for the long desired BlackBerry app ;) -
AngelMercury replied on August 27, 2009 06:35 to the question "Other users in a location not on my friends list" in foursquare:
Yes, I wonder about this too. It would be nice to be able to see who's in the same location. Like if I'm turf warring for Mayor and my competition is around I'd like to challenge them to a duel (or just say hi ^.~). It would certainly help the meeting new people aspect, and then you might be more inclined to friend people you see around town often, or who dig the same kinds of places you do. -
AngelMercury replied on August 27, 2009 06:32 to the problem "Strange bug, BLVD vs. DR" in foursquare:
On a related note, I've notice that Unit numbers seem to mess up the mapping in the system as well. You guys may want to add and an extra address line for that or something, so perfectly good addresses don't get the "We currently can't find this address on a map... maybe tweak it a bit?" error. -
A comment on the idea "I'd like to Foursquat (posting to Foursquare) within a reasonable time after" in foursquare:
Maybe so, but I think it'd be acceptable to sometimes back check in. I've checked in once or twice as I was leaving a place because I forgot to sooner or it just wasn't convenient to annoy the people I was with.
Also, I'm not sure how the meeting people thing works. When I check in on my blackberry it says I'm checked in with 'x' number of people but I can't see who's checked in and I certainly can't message them in anyway or send a shout out. Unless you mean just people who are already friends, but I thought Social Networking was about making new friends as well as keeping up with old ones. :) – AngelMercury, on August 27, 2009 06:26 -
AngelMercury started following the idea "I'd like to Foursquat (posting to Foursquare) within a reasonable time after" in foursquare.
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AngelMercury started following the idea "See all your friends' points all the time" in foursquare.
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A comment on the idea "Allow venues to be flagged as/combined with duplicates" in foursquare:
Thanks for getting those! Though it looks like the fix for the AMC River East didn't take as there are still 3 separate entries for it. – AngelMercury, on August 20, 2009 08:58 -
A comment on the question "Correct a venue name after checkin?" in foursquare:
Thank you Denis for giving a rough time line of when this will be implemented. One of my biggest peeves with foursquare has been that things seem like they've been in a state of being worked on, with not much mention of progress for several months. Looking forward to the upgrades that are coming.
And I will keep suggesting, If you don't have time to mod the venues yourself, you really should designate a user or few who would be trusted and capable of picking up the slack. You have more important development stuff to do anyhow :) – AngelMercury, on August 20, 2009 08:46 -
A comment on the question "Correct a venue name after checkin?" in foursquare:
I do this as well. If I can't find the venue after a few attempted searches I'll add it. – AngelMercury, on August 20, 2009 08:41 -
A comment on the question "Correct a venue name after checkin?" in foursquare:
I'm with silverton. I don't want to have to wait till I have 100 (or however many are required for superuser lvl whatever) in order to start fixing mistakes in the database or correcting check ins. It would be nice if we could apply for said mod type positions. Partly I think that'd be more effective anyhow. I don't go out as often as some of the most active users, but I'm probably more inclined to fix things than many of said happening folk. – AngelMercury, on August 20, 2009 08:39
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